[LUGSB] text editors for 4+ GB files

[James Harris]

Hi Lucas,

How about "less"? It opens big files quickly and has vi-like keybindings.

James

Lucas Carey wrote:

>Hi All,
>Can anyone recommed a good txt editor for looking at 4+ GB txt files? Vim takes for ever to open up. I'd ideally like  to be able to open a file at a given line or at the first occurance of a given pattern, ala vim. I definetly need to be able to go to the first occurance of a given pattern or a given line once the file is open. 
>I have an 4-cpu alpha with 6GB of ram, so memory is not too much of an issue.
>
>% wc output.file
> 113401439 547030563 5061674108
> 
>
> still waiting for vim to open up to line 100600323. By this time, I've already grepped fully through the file 3 times.
>
> -Lucas
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